{"id":179,"date":"2011-08-29T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tested-neuron.flywheelsites.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:02:22","slug":"stacking-up-ep-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unreasonablegroup.com\/articles\/stacking-up-ep-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacking Up (ep.5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/27874661\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"left\"><p>Discovering your assumptions are wrong early on is a huge success.<span id=\"tweetquote\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=http:\/\/bit.ly\/1FRTNhf&amp;via=unreasonable&amp;text=&quot;Discovering your assumptions are wrong early on is a huge success.&quot;@unreasonmedia @ERozenrot\"><i class=\"fa fa-twitter\"><\/i> Tweet This Quote<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Shivani Siroya, co-founder of InVenture, struggles with how she<\/strong> stacks up against the other Unreasonable Fellows as she prepares for the trip to San Francisco to meet with investors. With the help of the Unreasonable Mentors, she redefines her business and what she thought was possible. Her confidence and her excitement for her company InVenture, a fund for micro-entrepreneurs, is finally beginning to shine through in her communication.<\/p>\n<p>In five days the Unreasonable Fellows will be in San Francisco. They are encouraged by the team to be authentic and unreasonable in building relationships with investors. Will their unique and revolutionary ventures inspire the investors to deploy the capital necessary for them to scale?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>This is one episode of a series by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreasonablemedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Media<\/a> capturing the stories &amp; journey of the 27 entrepreneurs part of the 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreasonableinstitute.org\" target=\"_blank\">Unreasonable Institute<\/a> cohort. 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